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• innovative Indian film director Ritwik Ghatak's first feature film Nagarik premiered after his death, twenty-four years after it was made?
• in 1914, Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film?
• Danish film director Pernille Fischer Christensen's first feature film, about the relationship between a beauty shop owner and a transvestite, won a Silver Bear prize at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival?
• the 1948 film Terri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India?
• the 2001 feature film Cupid's Mistake was produced on a budget of US$980?
• wealthy newspaper publisher Joe Knowland played a prison guard in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz, at the age of 49?
• the first feature film of director Paul Verhoeven is Business Is Business, a 1971 comedy film about two prostitutes in Amsterdam?
• the Telugu film Amma Cheppindi was inspired by the science fiction story Flowers for Algernon?
• Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?
• Tiefland, Leni Riefenstahl’s last full-feature film, made it into the Guiness Book of World Records on account of its long production time?
• Kishan Shrikanth, age ten, is in the process of directing a Kannada-language feature film, C/o Footpath, which will almost certainly make him the youngest director ever to release a commercial feature film?
• Herne Bay Pier was the setting for the opening sequence of Ken Russell's first feature film French Dressing?
• Bogdan Žižić is the only film director whose first two feature films both won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film?
• Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay, Half Nelson?
• William Wadsworth Hodkinson (pictured) merged 11 film rental bureaus in 1914 to form Paramount Pictures, the first U.S.-wide distributor of feature films?
• Singapore Dreaming bagged Singapore its first IFFPA-recognised award at an international feature film festival?
• Handling Ships, the first animated British Technicolor feature film, was never meant to be released to theatres but was an "Official Selection" at Cannes in 1946?
• Avakai Biryani marked the debut of Anish Kuruvilla as a feature film director and Bindu Madhavi as a mainstream actress in Telugu cinema?
• Safi Faye's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman?